University of Minnesota Athletics
WBB
11/25/2014 12:00:00 AM | Women's Basketball
Head Coach Marlene Stollings
Opening Statement
Thank you all for coming. We started the game off more intense than we have the last couple of games, which was a big goal of ours coming into tonight. We felt like we started sluggish the last couple of outings, so it was a big challenge to our team to come in and start strong tonight, and I think that really just set the tone for the entire evening. We jumped out to such a great start, we were just able to play off of it the rest of the night.
On getting the offense started early in the game...
I think, again, just because we were able to jump on them early, our team does a great job of sharing the ball in general, so that won't change. We were getting very good looks at the basket, they did a great job at knocking those shots down tonight.
On newcomers getting minutes early in the season...
It is always great to have an opportunity for them to get minutes, and quality minutes, early in the season and help them get some experience and hopefully help us out down the road.
On tonight's game, being tested in Memphis and moving forward...
Well I think it's great that everyone had a chance to get in there and play, you know we were really tested at Memphis, we had to handle some adversity, they're a very solid team and to go on the road, our first road game, and handle that in that environment I thought was a testament to our kids and their toughness and their competitiveness, handling everything that happened that night. But we're gonna go to Florida, we feel like we're a very strong team as well and we're excited to play against some of the other highly touted teams in the nation and see where we're at.
Rachel Banham
On her career-high night from behind the arc...
Yeah, I was taking advantage of the space that I had, which usually doesn't happen, so I was loving it so I was just letting it fly.
On the strong first half performance and coming out strong...
Like coach said, we have really emphasized coming out strong since the last few games we've been really slow, but this game, you know, we came out firing, that was huge for us and once we had that I knew that we were going to continue keep doing it.
